Images: KIPP Academy on lockdown

KIPP Academy in Baltimore is on lockdown after students told school officials they saw a potential intruder.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said KIPP Academy in Baltimore has been deemed safe hours after a lockdown was prompted when students told school officials they saw a potential intruder.

While a police SWAT team sweeps the school as a precaution, parents lined up at nearby Baltimore Polytechnic Institute to meet with their children as word of student evacuations came down.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Growing line of parents. They tell 11 News reporter Jason Newton word-of-mouth spread quickly and they describe how nervous they were when got the call.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Jason Newton

"I heard that the kids are being evacuated, that no one is harmed. I just want to see my son," a mother tells 11 News reporter Jason Newton.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Parents and family and guardians showing up at the school and being kept away across the street.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

People right across the street from the school who have showed up not knowing what is going on. Police are telling them to go to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

People showing up at the school to get their kids and being kept across the street. All police are saying is that they should go to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and that is where the students will be taken when they leave the school.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

Buses lined up to take students and staff to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

Students are being evacuated from the school via bus and will be taken to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's auditorium where parents can pick them up. KIPP staff will stay with the students until they are picked up.

KIPP Academy in Baltimore is on lockdown after students told school officials they saw a potential intruder.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said KIPP Academy in Baltimore has been deemed safe hours after a lockdown was prompted when students told school officials they saw a potential intruder.

While a police SWAT team sweeps the school as a precaution, parents lined up at nearby Baltimore Polytechnic Institute to meet with their children as word of student evacuations came down.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Growing line of parents. They tell 11 News reporter Jason Newton word-of-mouth spread quickly and they describe how nervous they were when got the call.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Jason Newton

"I heard that the kids are being evacuated, that no one is harmed. I just want to see my son," a mother tells 11 News reporter Jason Newton.

PHOTO: WBAL-TV\Lowell Melser

Parents and family and guardians showing up at the school and being kept away across the street.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

People right across the street from the school who have showed up not knowing what is going on. Police are telling them to go to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

People showing up at the school to get their kids and being kept across the street. All police are saying is that they should go to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and that is where the students will be taken when they leave the school.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

Buses lined up to take students and staff to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

PHOTO: WBAL\Scott Wykoff

Students are being evacuated from the school via bus and will be taken to Baltimore Polytechnic Institute's auditorium where parents can pick them up. KIPP staff will stay with the students until they are picked up.